8/5: Dumb Blonde aka Anne Savage and Simpy Jeff @ The Lizard Lounge by Eill Vibe

[maverico]

Dumb Blonde
aka Anne Savage
Minsitry of Sound Tidy Trax
www.annesavage.net


Simply Jeff
Dj Culture Phonomental Music Moonshine Music
www.simplyjeff.com


Kelsey & Aleksus Sanchez tag team

Video Bar
Phinatik
Sno White
Dj Code Blue

The Lizard Lounge
2424 Swiss Ave
Dallas, Tx 75204
214.826.4769
www.thelizardlounge.com

10 presale
15 door

E-Vibe Tickets available online
www.eillvibe.com

[maverico]

Anne’s journey to DJ notoriety began back in her hometown of Burnley where she was thrown in at the deep end and asked to become resident at the legendary ‘Angels’ alongside guest DJ luminaries such as Joey Beltram and Carl Cox. Heavily influenced by the illegal rave scene explosion that took northern England by storm, and formerly being a lead guitarist in the Indie band ‘The 53rd State, it wasn’t long before Anne’s Gibson Les Paul guitar had been traded in for a pair of decks and a 303. Working in the illustrious record shop Eastern Bloc by day and DJing in clubs by night, the start of Anne’s ascendance to the DJ elite came in the form of a residency at event leaders of their time, ‘Vague’ and ‘Ark ’ in Leeds alongside Sasha, TWA, Graeme Park and John Digweed.

The DJ
As a DJ, Anne is forever pushing boundaries. She is a pioneer in the harder style of dance music and encompasses a hybrid of sounds including techno, tech-trance and anything that packs the dance floor. Year after year, she has been a fixture in DJ Magazine’s ‘World’s Top 100 DJs Poll’ and featured as the only female in the ‘Top 10 Club DJs in Britain’ by the Independent on Sunday.
Anne is spearheading the global dance onslaught, regularly playing in The Americas, China, Malaysia, Japan, South Africa, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The Middle East, The Netherlands, Eastern Europe, Russia and Belarus. The festivals are just as regular too including Creamfields, Godskitchen’s Global Gathering, Wakestock, Digital Festival (Holland), Planet Love, Dance Valley, Q Base, Mystery Land, WEMF, WMC, Homelands and now the newly formed Hi-Fi, Tidy Weekenders and others.
Anne eats, sleeps and breathes djing and her gigs go beyond the clubbing circuit. She has played at the Malaysian Grand Prix in Kuala Lumpur, The Prodigy after party at The Odyssey in Belfast, backstage for Oasis @ Knebworth, and celeb bashes including Paris Hilton’s VVIP London perfume launch for fun where she tore up the dance floor and made it onto the pages of OK and the Daily Star!
Not so well publicised are the DJ workshops and seminars that she freely lends her advice to in all areas of dance music.

Dumb Blonde
After over 10 years pounding the hard groove Anne has quietly been ploughing energy into a new project - her house/breaks/electroclash moniker, Dumb Blonde.
A string of successful production pieces including ‘Sugar Lips’, and ‘We Have The Technology’, co- produced with ‘Coburn’ saw Dumb Blonde a name on everyone’s lips. Both tracks shot to the dance charts with a number 1 spot for ‘We Have The Technology’ in the German Cool Cuts with support from Timo Maas, Adam Freeland, Sasha and John Digweed. But don’t be fooled by the Dumb Blonde alias, Anne is anything but short of a few marbles, especially when it comes to her production skills. With only a limited pressing, ‘Sugar Lips’ sold out three times over and both tracks received fantastic reviews from all the dance press. Dumb Blonde has made such an impact she was asked by UK’s Streetwise to remix the genre breaking classic Zero’s ‘Emit’ that is due out some time 2006.
The concept of Dumb Blonde is personified in a unique highly stylised animation through visuals available for clubs to use wherever she plays. Dumb Blonde it would seem is poised for a knockout and has appeared selectively at only the finest breakbeat nights in the UK including The Gallery, Chew The Fat, Boomslang, Nu Skool Breaks London, Brighton’s Supercharged and Rennie Pilgrim’s legendary breaks night Hum, plus international conquests such as The LA Stock Exchange, Great Stuff’s Sound Garden in Munich and tours of China, Australia and Brazil confirmed for 2006.

The Producer
2006 saw ‘The Pod’ hit the top spot in the Hard Dance Buzz chart and was non- mover for three consecutive weeks. She also held the top 3 slots with her collaborations with Vinylgroover and The Red Hed for most downloaded tracks by trackitdown.net, the UK’s largest specialist hard dance download site. These groundbreaking tracks fuse tech-trance and electro, a must for those into hard twisted beats.

As a solo artist Anne’s euro-tech sounding piece ‘The Do’ has been snapped up by JOOF - John OO Fleming’s label. It’s getting massive support from a wide spectrum of djs including, Pedro Del Gardo, Marco V, Eddie Halliwell, Scott Project. ‘The Do’ will be available for digital download later this year. Another first for Anne is a collaboration with Dutch producer Marzz, on Detox Records, Amsterdam called ‘The Unknown’

Anne has headed many of the scene’s compilation series’ including Tidy’s ’Music For The Harder Generation’, ‘The Tidy Girls Annual’, and two ‘Extreme Euphoria’ albums to name a few.Anne’s Extreme Euphoria 2004 mix sold over 100,000 copies and was one of the best selling from the whole series. Both albums won the ‘Best Compilation’ award twice at the Hard Dance Awards as voted for by the public.
The Presenter
Not one to rest on her laurels, Anne is making serious n-roads as a presenter. She has become a household name from her stint on Channel 4’s ‘Faking It’ series where she successfully turned a classically trained musician into a DJ in just one month! Anne's input helped the episode win a BAFTA – the only episode to win from that series - shooting her into mainstream fame. So not only is Anne a favourite with clubbers throughout the world but she’s also loved by Mums and Dads too!
Anne has hosted and presented the Hard Dance Awards ceremony in the UK since their conception three years ago. The awards are presented to the best of the best in hard dance as a recognition for their contribution to the scene.
Since ‘Faking It’, the presenting offers came flooding in. Anne has worked for the BBC where they flew her to Australia to film a clubbing guide to Melbourne.
Anne presented the first-ever televised broadcast of the DJ Mag Top 100 DJ’s Poll for ITV. During the 2005 awards ceremony, Anne - with full TV crew in tow - hunted down fellow DJs including winner Paul Van Dyk to be interviewed for the show.
As well as appearances on MTV’s TRL, MTV Dance, MTV Europe, Rapture and Sky One, Anne’s extensive knowledge of music was called upon when asked for her input on Channel Four’s ‘Music Hall of Fame’, commenting on The Prodigy and Simon and Garfunkel! She made it through to the semi-finals of Celebrity Poker, beating celebs such as James Hewitt, Romeo, Ali Mcoist and Jon Thompson.
Anne’s best and most impressive bits from the above are packed together on a DVD showreel – available on request.
The Media Having no talent go un-recognised, Anne was selected out of hundreds of DJsto host her own specialist weekly show on Ministry Of Sound radio. Anne takes over the waves to play her unique eclectic tastemaker’s selection of Dumb Blonde and Anne Savage style tuneage every Wednesday from 8-10pm (GMT) turning on listeners in every continent. The show goes Digital from June 5th 2006.
Another feather in Anne’s cap came in the form of being asked to fill in for Dave Pearce on his popular Sunday night show ‘Dance Anthems’ on BBC Radio 1, which has an estimated 2.2 million listeners. Also on Radio 1, Anne has stepped-up to the golden decks twice to provide worldwide listeners with an Essential Mix. Both times she provided 2hrs of her trademark tough grooves, with nothing but positive feedback. Anne also appeared on Carl Cox’s Global Radio show to an audience of over 1million listeners for an electro-techy Dumb Blonde influenced mix
Anne has her fair share of column inches and is regularly featured in Mixmag, DJ, M8, and I-DJ plus other publications worldwide. Anne is an icon to female clubbers everywhere and is in demand outside the music press, transcending the DJ label and appearing in lifestyle publications such as InStyle, Vogue Italia, Sunday Times Style Magazine and Loaded, where she was voted no. 67 in the magazine’s top 100 sexiest females!!

[maverico]

This California native started playing records for local break dance acts and private events in the mid-eighties. This lead Jeff to perform in top nightclubs and radio mix shows. Today the name “Simply Jeff” is known across the globe for supporting the music he loves the most. This west coast breaks pioneer currently writes breakbeat reviews for Los Angeles based BPM Magazine as well as running the Phonomental Music label based out of Newport Beach, California which include top breakbeat artist such as Uberzone, Elite Force, John Kelley, Josef Plante and B-Side to name a few. Jeff also maintains a busy dj tour schedule and over sees operation of his highly acclaimed record shop in Costa Mesa, California called “Dj Culture” which attracts frequent visits by DJ Rap, Dj Irene, Charles Feelgood, Donald Glaude, John Kelley, Swedish Egil, Dj Mea, DJ Lynwood and more. DJ Culture (djculture.com) is also the home of a weekly mix show with Simply Jeff and Mizota showcasing all the freshest releases direct from the record shop to the world wide web! Jeff, Phonomental & DJ Culture produces Orange County's breaks night on the first thursday of every month titled Tsunami Breaks.

[EillVibe]

Get ready Dallas for an amazing show!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mal1ce]

This is going to be a great show, Anne is really cool. We went shopping for Escalades and Vettes last time she was here...lol.

[Tortures Dionysos]

Originally Posted by mal1ce

This is going to be a great show, Anne is really cool. We went shopping for Escalades and Vettes last time she was here...lol.

HA! HA! Oh the memories!

I remember her helping me fix my hair in her hotel room...before we left for her gig.

[dj_tessai]

This is going to rock!

[mal1ce]

Originally Posted by Karen

HA! HA! Oh the memories!

I remember her helping me fix my hair in her hotel room...before we left for her gig.

Ya, that was definitely fun times....you need to come out for this one, I'm sure she'd love to see you.

[Darren Afrika-ka-ka]

should be a good gig...i remember spinning with her and the Tidy Girls on a number of occasions in cape town and in London..she has always been a party girl.

[junglist bastid]

hell yeah dude i'll be there for this one, one of the few hard dance acts i'd still go see these days.

[mal1ce]

Originally Posted by junglist bastid

hell yeah dude i'll be there for this one, one of the few hard dance acts i'd still go see these days.

Just FYI, She's going to be playing breaks. Thats what she's doing with the "Dumb Blonde" alias.
Still, it's going to be a great show, she's a fantastic performer.

[junglist bastid]

Originally Posted by mal1ce

Just FYI, She's going to be playing breaks. Thats what she's doing with the "Dumb Blonde" alias.
Still, it's going to be a great show, she's a fantastic performer.

hmmmmmm.... I'll still come cause I love Anne Savage but that kinda sux. Oh well nothing lasts forever.

[maverico]

Originally Posted by junglist bastid

hmmmmmm.... I'll still come cause I love Anne Savage but that kinda sux. Oh well nothing lasts forever.

Dumb Blonde is a mix of her style of house/electro/breaks

[junglist bastid]

I"ll be excited to hear how her new style will rock out!

[maverico]

Originally Posted by junglist bastid

I"ll be excited to hear how her new style will rock out!

As Dumb Blonde she did one track with Coburn it's called "Sugar Lips" . Crystal Method played it at their show and the crowd went nuts. Check it out when you get a chance.